N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 13/08/2026this is kind of alex douglas' view lmao 110
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 12/08/2026i should note that nadler's view goes against the grain of contemporary anglophone scholarship which tends to view spinoza as a weird kind of theist 120
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 12/08/2026big boy brett out here breaking molds 010
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 12/08/2026i reviewed steven nadler's latest book, which is the most sustained version of his argument that spinoza was an atheist to date i'm somewhat unconvinced; if you'd like to know why, go ahead and click through! philosophersmag.com/spinoza-athe...philosophersmag.comSpinoza, Atheist? - The Philosophers' MagazineStephen Harrop is not persuaded by Steven Nadler’s argument that Spinoza was an atheist. 2181
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 11/08/2026against my deepest desires and fondest wishes, i once again find myself in boston 010
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 26/05/2026the obsidian order has excellent plastic surgeons 030
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 20/05/2026i wish all the people reacting to arxiv's decision by saying it's bad to expect people to read everything they cite a very pleasant commendatore scene from don giovanni 020
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 15/05/2026if you wanna read a (draft and still under review) manuscript of my cambridge element on the spinoza-boyle correspondence, you're in luck! you can do so here: philpapers.org/rec/HARTSC-16philpapers.orgStephen Harrop, The Spinoza-Boyle Correspondence - PhilPapers 092
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 28/04/2026manuscript done time for ruthless editing 000
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 27/04/2026was a panelist for a viva with a presentation component and the presentation was full of ``it's not just X it's Y'' sentences 050
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 17/04/2026your prayers for all and everyone involved are of course appreciated 010
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 22/03/2026y'all ever wonder if they'd say ``surely you are right socrates'' to try to get him to shut the hell up 140
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 17/03/2026that's -9° today to 32° on sunday, for those not using freedom units 000
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 17/03/2026god made the midwest to train the faithful 101
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 13/03/2026congratulations, you've invented analytic normative ethics 110
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 13/03/2026no no, *my* feelings of disgust and revulsion carve the joints of the moral universe, *your* feelings of disgust are mere arational impulses bred into you by evolutionary and social pressures which you then mistakenly reify 150
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 23/02/2026want to read papers by nine excellent scholars and some weirdo on the thought of emilie du chatelet? you're in luck! the new bloomsbury companion is now out www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia...bloomsburycollections.comBloomsbury Collections 031
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 10/02/2026in the anarcho-conservative meta-utopia yet to come, each community in the archipelago will retain the ability to expel offenders should they so wish 010
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 10/02/2026in fairness this is an essay collection 110
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 10/02/2026note: the book to whose chapter 5 he refers here is not that book but his ``the book of evidence'' 010
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 10/02/2026chapter 1 of ``evidence, explanation, and realism'' 210
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 10/02/2026the absolute GALL of peter to put this in a throwaway line at the end of a chapter 120
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 08/02/2026inference to the best explanation? oh you mean adding as many ad hoc epicycles in order to save some preferred phenomenon? 020
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 01/02/2026(ii) i suspect that establishing the necessary causation in any case like this would be so prohibitively difficult as to be a practical impossibility all in all, not a terribly good proposal in purely practical terms if what you care about is efficacy 010
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 01/02/2026other things aside there are two practical problems with this (i) depraved heart murder requires the committing of a ``dangerous and reckless act with wanton indifference to the consequences and perils involved,'' and demonstrating this in cases i suppose qt has in mind would be prohibitive 110
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 31/01/2026alternate hypothesis: the fusionist synthesis was always unstable and now, in absence of a defining enemy, the pre-existing fault lines are more salient (probably a bit of both tbh, they're complementary) 051
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 31/01/2026read your lady some poetry before bed lads, cannot recommend it enough (this might well work for your lads as well, and for a lady's lady, i simply have no data there, but it won't hurt to try!) 010
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 24/01/2026this in a place where summers are routinely in the mid-90s (mid-30s centigrade) and not-infrequently have tornadoes God made the midwest to train the faithful 010
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 24/01/2026hat's a straight-up temperature of -18°C and a ``feels like'' of -27°C, for those not using freedom units 100
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 24/01/2026checking in on small town missouri where my folks live and oh oh no 110
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 16/01/2026i haven't watched it and am not going to; i learned my lesson with snw, not gonna waste my time (you're right, of course, i probably would've found something to hate, i'm just as the good Lord made me etc) 110
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 09/01/2026(curley had a good paper on that connection back in the 80s or 90s, if i recall correctly) 200
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 09/01/2026i haven't read the treatises on government and other of locke's political writings closely in years (just the essay), so i wouldn't want to venture an opinion on that hobbes thought highly of the ttp from what i recall, though, so maybe there's a connection there 100
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 09/01/2026it'd be interesting to see how this meshes with the stuff in EIVp29-37s2 (i also think we tend to downplay the ways spinoza is an aristotelian these days, and the division of types of government and their corruptions is one of those; compare with politics iii 7/1279b4-1279b10) 110
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 09/01/2026not off the top of my head; i want to say matheron but i'll go back and look 010
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 09/01/2026(though i know some folks think ``reason'' refers at times to the second and at other times to the third kind of cognition, so that complicates things) 020
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 09/01/2026so reason/second kind of cognition hooks onto the order of nature, but intuition/third kind of cognition, being more active, rearranges ideas of the affections of the human body in a way that reason in that sense doesn't 110
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 09/01/2026oh cool; the interesting thing i've always liked in EVp10 is that it's not just about perceiving things according to the order of the intellect, but rearranging our ideas (``ordinandi et concatenandi'') to mirror it, which is much closer to mental satisfaction imo 120
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 09/01/2026as you know, i'm angling to change this 010
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 09/01/2026as to op's second remark (that there's little about this in english), this is correct; from what i recall the french scholarship is better about this i suspect this is downstream from an anglophone prejudice that part V is hopeless, so we should mostly focus on I-III 210
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 09/01/2026strongly agree, though maybe for dfferent reasons than op; see for example his remarks on memory and the common order of nature vs the order of the intellect in EIIp18s and how that relates to what he says EVp21dem and its implications for the eternity of the mind 210
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 08/01/2026update: martin is replacing the module on plato with one on academic freedom the required text for the lecture is: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...nytimes.comTexas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato 1305
